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A former high school teacher in New Jersey, Ashley Fischler, has been arrested and faces up to 20 years in prison following allegations of a sexual relationship with a student.
A new law signed in New Jersey by Sherrill restricts the use of face coverings for law enforcement officers, including agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
A vehicle fire following a crash in the Lincoln Tunnel towards New Jersey led to significant traffic delays, with officials advising drivers to seek alternative routes.
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Airbnb is encouraging homeowners in New Jersey to list their properties for rent during the upcoming World Cup, offering incentives to boost accommodation options.
A United Airlines flight en route to New Jersey was forced to make an emergency landing at LAX and evacuate passengers after an engine fire was reported shortly after takeoff.
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Justice Department Sues 5 More States For Refusing To Provide Voter Rolls
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The federal government has filed lawsuits against five states—Utah, Oklahoma, Kentucky, West Virginia, and New Jersey—accusing local officials of failing to provide full voter registration lists as requested, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a Feb. 26 statement.
“The Attorney General is uniquely charged by Congress with broad authority to request e...
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Marques Brownlee, a well-followed YouTuber and tech reviewer, said he is no longer in contact with Tesla.
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Marques Brownlee, the YouTuber known as MKBHD, said he is no longer in contact with Tesla.
He said he had to source a car from a local dealership for his latest review.
He reviewed the company's latest Model Y Performance, which hit dealerships in September.
Social media's most influential tech reviewer said Tesla keeps leaving him on read.
Marques Brownlee — better known as MKBHD to his 20.8 million YouTube subscribers — said he had to take a trip to a nearby car dealership to source his own Tesla Model Y Performance for a January review.
"Tesla stopped talking to me," Brownlee said in a recent TikTok, filmed as he picked up the SUV from New Jersey EV dealer George Saliba. "It's not cause I gave them a negative review."
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Automakers typically offer loan cars to influencers and journalists for weeklong test drives, and Tesla has supplied Brownlee with its vehicles in the past.
In 2022, he called the Model S Plaid the "best overall car of the last decade," after a review.
The TikTok clip is the latest sign that the relationship has cooled.
In 2023, Brownlee spoke out after the Cybertruck's delivery event. The pickup, which Musk initially said would have a 500-mile range and a starting price under $40,000, launched with just over 300 miles of range and a $70,000 sticker.
Brownlee said Tesla's reveal was "straight up not delivering" on its promises.
He still took delivery of the new car, but sold the Cybertruck after eight months and replaced it with the Rivian R1T, a rival electric pickup.
And in September 20205, Brownlee publicly canceled his $50,000 deposit for two long-awaited Tesla Roadsters.
"Tesla has been sitting with my 50 grand for eight years and hasn't done anything with it, obviously," he said on his "Waveform Podcast."
Tesla didn't respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
MKBHD's largely positive review
Despite the apparent chill in the relationship, Brownlee's latest Tesla review was largely rosy.
After spending time with the refreshed Model Y Performance — a dual-motor SUV with about 460 horsepower and a starting price of about $59,130 — Brownlee said Tesla still leads in several key areas.
"The thing about testing one and actually driving a Tesla for a while, you start to remember all of the ways that Tesla is still ahead of the competition," he said in the video.
He praised the center display as the automotive "gold standard," highlighted improvements to the ride and rear design, and said Tesla's regenerative braking remains best in class.
His review wasn't completely glowing.
Brownlee said he wants more physical controls and argued that the trim doesn't meaningfully sharpen the steering or overall driving feel in sport mode.
He also said Tesla's lead isn't as commanding as it once was, pointing to rising competition from Lucid, Rivian, and General Motors.
Brownlee's return to the dealership lot
It's not the first time Brownlee has turned to Saliba's lot when a carmaker didn't provide a vehicle.
In 2024, he picked up a Fisker Ocean from the same dealership and called it the "worst car I've ever reviewed," setting up a PR firestorm for Fisker.
The automaker pushed back on the review, saying he had driven the car just before an expansive software update.
Fisker filed for bankruptcy three months later.
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New Jersey State Police rescued an abandoned bear cub found alone along Interstate 78, with photos of the adorable rescue quickly going viral on social media.
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Private credit firm Blue Owl Capital is grappling with record redemption requests, with investors seeking to pull $5.4 billion from two private-credit funds, driven by deepening private credit and software fears, leading the firm to impose withdrawal limits as investors who fueled its growth now seek to exit.
New Jersey lawmakers are calling for a federal investigation into Newark Public Schools, alleging that $287 million in COVID relief funds were mismanaged and students were denied tutoring services.
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New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill attended a Ramadan event at a Paterson mosque led by Imam Mohammad Qatanani, who has allegedly been accused of ties to Hamas and previously fought deportation.
FBI agents successfully rescued missing autistic teen Joel Medina in New Jersey after a nearly two-day search in near-freezing temperatures and rugged woods.
Actors Bill Camp, Roman Griffin Davis, Michael Rispoli, and Jordana Spiro have joined the cast of 'Operation Fastlink,' a new coming-of-age crime thriller that recently wrapped its New Jersey shoot.
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New Jersey has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration to halt the construction of a proposed ICE facility, following a similar legal challenge by Maryland.
A New Jersey congresswoman, Nellie Pou, has introduced legislation to prevent immigration enforcement from conducting raids within a mile of World Cup stadiums and fan festivals, following ICE chief Todd Lyons' refusal to rule out such actions.
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American Express Company (AXP) has announced an expansion of its card member benefits program, specifically targeting customers in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area and Atlanta.
Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie alleges that Jared Kushner was behind his dismissal from the Trump campaign, stemming from Christie's prosecution of Kushner's father, Charles Kushner, who served prison time for various offenses.
Exxon Mobil has announced its intention to relocate its legal headquarters from New Jersey to Texas, a move that has been exclusively reported by the Wall Street Journal.
A New Jersey resident's dog discovered a bone on a beach that was later identified by a local fossil museum as belonging to an animal that went extinct thousands of years ago, dating back over 10,000 years.
A report titled 'Tax Haven, USA' maps various tax shelters across America and references a historical bribery attempt in the New Jersey Assembly in 1967.
Bid your favorite pancake topper 'adieu!'
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Every state has its own iconic breakfast food, whether it was invented or popularized there.
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The ceramic pieces Jordan Piluso purchased at an estate sale this year.
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The U.S. Department of Justice announced a lawsuit against the State of New Jersey and its Democratic Governor, Mikie Sherrill, for 'obstructing' federal immigration policy.
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PJM Board Approves $11.8BN Transmission Expansion Plan
By Ethan Howland Of UtilityDive
The PJM Interconnection’s board last week approved $11.8 billion in baseline transmission projects, with Dominion Energy’s Virginia utility landing roughly $4.8 billion in those projects.
The projects are part of PJM’s 2025 Regional Transmission Expansion Plan Window 1, which is designed to bolster grid reliability that is strained by accelerated load growth in multiple areas across its Mid-Atlantic and Midwest footprint.
The projects are also needed to handle new generation in southern Virginia, future generation in western PJM, delays to New Jersey offshore wind projects and increased regional flows toward the eastern parts of PJM’s footprint, the grid operator said Friday.
PJM will monitor load and generation in its footprint to make sure needed transmission development is progressing in a timely manner, the grid operator said in its board-approved plan.
DataBank’s IAD4 data center under construction in Ashburn, Va
“PJM also clarified that siting, routing and regulatory processes, as well as construction, take a long time, and PJM needs the plan to be ready and advanced for the forecasted conditions proactively rather than bringing needed development late, which introduces impediments to development and reliability risks to stakeholders,” the grid operator said.
Meanwhile, transmission costs are making up a growing share of the price of wholesale electricity in PJM.
In 2024, transmission contributed $17.71/MWh to the cost of wholesale power in PJM, up 23%, or 5.8% a year, from $14.40/MWh in 2022, according to reports from Monitoring Analytics, PJM’s market monitor.
Transmission costs totaled $13.9 billion, or 32% of total wholesale costs of $43.6 billion, in 2024, the last full year of Monitoring Analytics’ reporting. Energy costs made up nearly 59% of the cost of wholesale power that year and capacity accounted for 6.6% of the total.
As part of PJM’s transmission expansion plan, Dominion Energy Virginia intends to build a $2.3-billion, 525-kV underground “backbone” transmission line in Virginia. The project, set to be online by June 2032, also calls for building two high-voltage direct current converter stations at each end of the 185-mile line for about $1.5 billion.
The project is designed to deliver 3,000 MW into Loudoun County in northern Virginia, the area with the most data center capacity in the world.
Like other multi-zone projects in the RTEP, the costs of the project will be shared across PJM’s footprint.
The just-approved plan also includes a $1.7-billion transmission line across central Pennsylvania proposed by NextEra Energy Transmission and Exelon. The project was opposed by Pennsylvania’s Office of Consumer Advocate, which argued that there were less expensive alternatives to the project.
The project addresses system-wide, structural reliability needs in PJM’s northeastern region that cannot be met with incremental upgrades or “terminal-only” solutions, NextEra and Exelon said in a Jan. 29 letter to PJM’s board.
“PJM’s own analyses and the convergence of independent developer proposals, demonstrates that new high-voltage backbone infrastructure is required to maintain reliable service under plausible future conditions,” the companies said. The project is slated to be operating by June 2031.
The transmission plan includes a $1.1 billion project in central Ohio proposed by Grid Growth Ventures, a joint venture between Transource Energy — a partnership between American Electric Power and Evergy — and FirstEnergy Transmission. The project includes 300 miles of 765-kV lines.
Under the plan, PPL Electric will build transmission projects totaling about $580 million, while Exelon subsidiaries Commonwealth Edison and Potomac Electric Power Co. will build projects totaling about $276 million and $292 million, respectively.
PJM’s RTEPs for 2024 and 2023 included $5.9 billion and $6.6 billion in baseline projects.
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A powerful winter storm has impacted the northeastern United States, leading to widespread travel disruptions, flight cancellations, and states of alert in areas like New York and New Jersey.
The northeastern US is bracing for a severe winter storm. The governors of New York and New Jersey have declared a state of emergency, as have several other states. Thousands of flights z
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Jack Hughes of the New Jersey Devils made franchise history by recording his fourth consecutive season with 40 or more assists in the team's 5-3 win over the Chicago Blackhawks.
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The Roller Rabbit collection at a Target store in New Jersey.
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Target launched its collaboration with Roller Rabbit on Saturday morning.
I got to a store early and saw how chaotic it became when people tried to buy pieces from the line.
Still, I was impressed with the collection and even bought a pair of pajamas for myself.
Saturday morning was cold, rainy, and gray in northern New Jersey. The only place I wanted to be was curled up and cozy with my cat.
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Over five thousand flights have been canceled in the USA due to a snowstorm that paralyzed the country's East Coast, affecting major airports in New York, Boston, and New Jersey.
A massive snowstorm struck the northeastern United States, trapping millions indoors and causing widespread power outages. Blizzard warnings, travel disruptions, and school closures are in effect.
Brian Thompson, 75, arrived in Puerto Vallarta on Saturday and is sheltering in place.
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Brian Thompson, 75, headed to Mexico to escape a winter storm in New Jersey.
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John F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, attended the Municipal Art Society Gala in 1998.
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John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, and her sister died in a 1999 plane crash near Martha's Vineyard.
Rumors of a "Kennedy curse" were fueled by multiple family tragedies over the decades.
JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette's relationship is now the topic of an FX series, "Love Story."
The Kennedy family has been subjected to many tragedies over the years, including two assassinations and a plane crash that took the lives of John F. Kennedy Jr. and two other passengers.
Nearly 27 years ago, on July 16, 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and her older sister Lauren Bessette were killed in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. There were no survivors from the accident.
The relationship between John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy is now the topic of an FX series executive-produced by Ryan Murphy, "Love Story."
Their deaths became a major news story and perpetuated rumors of a "Kennedy curse."
JFK Jr.'s father, former President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in 1963. His uncle, Robert "Bobby" Kennedy, was assassinated five years later in 1968. And two years before JFK Jr.'s death, his cousin Michael Kennedy also died after hitting a tree while skiing in Aspen, Colorado.
Here's what we know about the plane crash that killed John F. Kennedy Jr. and two others.
John F. Kennedy Jr. frequently made headlines throughout the 1990s.
John F. Kennedy, Jr. at the Democratic National Convention in 1988.
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As the son of a president and a member of one of America's most prominent political dynasties, John F. Kennedy Jr. was destined for the spotlight.
JFK Jr. was born on November 25, 1960, just two weeks after his father was elected president. His father was assassinated on November 22, 1963, just three days shy of JFK Jr.'s third birthday.
JFK Jr., affectionately nicknamed "John-John" by the public, attended the funeral on his birthday and was famously photographed saluting his father's casket.
Throughout much of his adolescence and adulthood, he mostly remained out of the public eye.
However, his public image began to change after he introduced his uncle, Ted Kennedy, at the Democratic National Convention in 1988.
In September 1988, People named Kennedy, who was then a 27-year-old third-year law student at NYU, the "Sexiest Man Alive."
JFK Jr. also dated a few celebrities throughout the 1990s, including "Sex and the City" star Sarah Jessica Parker, Cindy Crawford, and Daryl Hannah.
John F. Kennedy Jr. began dating Carolyn Bessette, a publicist for Calvin Klein, in 1994.
John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy in 1995.
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They met in the fitting room at Calvin Klein, where Bessette helped JFK Jr. pick out wardrobe items, Elizabeth Beller wrote in "Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy," cited by People.
Tall, sophisticated, and beautiful, JFK Jr.'s new girlfriend captivated the public.
After two years of dating, the pair married in an intimate ceremony on Cumberland Island, Georgia, People reported.
While their wedding ceremony was private, their relationship was anything but, thanks to the prying eyes of the paparazzi.
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The media attention may have even inspired Kennedy to get his pilot's license in 1998.
"That was some of the happiest times he ever had. Floating around with the buzzards in his Buckeye [plane]. It was the freedom," his close friend Robbie Littell told "JFK Jr: An Intimate Oral Biography" author RoseMarie Terenzio, according to People.
"He said, 'It's the only place I can go where no one is bothering me. I have complete silence, and no one can get to me except the air traffic controllers.' Maybe that gives you insight into what he was really dealing with on the ground," his college friend Gary Ginsberg said, People reported.
John F. Kennedy Jr. was traveling to Martha's Vineyard with his wife and her older sister when their plane was reported missing.
The hangar where John Kennedy Jr. kept his Piper Saratoga airplane.
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The Washington Post reported that Kennedy departed Essex County Airport near Fairfield, New Jersey, at around 8:38 p.m. on Friday, July 16, 1999. The sun was already beginning to set and "hazy conditions," which had been reported earlier in the evening, were getting worse, People reported.
Kennedy planned to drop his sister-in-law Lauren Bessette on Martha's Vineyard before traveling to his family's compound in Hyannis Port with Carolyn. The couple was due to attend his cousin Rory Kennedy's wedding the following day, according to People.
However, the plane never landed in Martha's Vineyard.
An unidentified driver reported the plane had failed to arrive at Martha's Vineyard Airport as expected, according to the Post, citing an NBC report. It kicked off a search for the missing aircraft in the early hours of July 17.
The Kennedy family notified the Cape Cod Coast Guard that the couple had not made it back to Hyannis.
A Coast Guard helicopter searching for debris from John Kennedy Jr.'s plane.
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The Washington Post reported that the Coast Guard then began investigating whether the plane had landed at another airport.
By 4 a.m., the Coast Guard began searching for the missing plane, and by 7:30 a.m., the Air Force and Coast Guard had launched 20 aircraft vehicles and two boats to search the area between Long Island and Martha's Vineyard, according to the Post's timeline.
On Sunday afternoon, what was presumed to be debris from the plane was found on Philbin Beach on Martha's Vineyard. Among the debris was a headrest that was later concluded to be from the missing aircraft and a black suitcase that contained Lauren Bessette's business card.
Rory Kennedy's wedding, scheduled for 6 p.m. that night, was put on hold as the family awaited more news.
The Washington Post reported that after more debris was found in the days to follow, the search-and-rescue mission became a search-and-recovery mission.
All three of the plane's passengers were now presumed dead. John F. Kennedy Jr. was 38 years old. Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy was 33, and her sister Lauren Bessette was 34.
Five days after the crash, the bodies of John F. Kennedy Jr., Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and Lauren Bessette were recovered.
Massachusetts State Police divers left Menemsha on Martha's Vineyard on July 19, 1999.
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The debris field was identified off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, relatively near the estate once owned by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Kennedy's mother, The New York Times reported. (Kennedy Onassis died in 1994.)
The bodies of John F. Kennedy Jr., Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and Lauren Bessette were discovered by Navy divers on July 22, 1999, after an extensive search approved by President Bill Clinton.
The bodies of the crash victims, which were ''near and under'' the main body of the aircraft, were still strapped in, according to the Times.
Details began to emerge about what led to the crash.
A television technician holds up the official handout map of the search and rescue area off Martha's Vineyard.
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Kennedy had only flown about 72 hours without a flight instructor, and had only about 300 total hours of flying experience, The New York Times reported in July 2000. He had reportedly rejected an offer to have a flight instructor accompany the group on their journey.
As a newly trained pilot, Kennedy was not licensed to fly and navigate the air using flying instruments. Instead, he had only trained to fly using sight alone, which would have been extremely difficult in dark or hazy conditions such as those on the night of July 16.
Warren Morningstar, a spokesman for the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, told the Times that "flying at night over featureless terrain or water, and particularly in haze or in overcast, is a prime setup for spatial disorientation."
About an hour into the trip, the plane's flight path became irregular as it began its descent into Martha's Vineyard, indicating that the pilot may have become disoriented by the darkness of the sky and the water, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded.
"His flight path into the water is consistent with what is known as a graveyard spiral," Jeff Guzzetti, an NTSB investigator in the accident, told Terenzio, according to People. "The airplane makes a spiral nose down … kind of like going down a drain. The plane went into one final turn and it stayed in that turn pretty much all the way down to the ocean."
The aircraft went down in the water about 7 miles from its intended destination of Martha's Vineyard.
Mourners pay respects at the floral shrine outside of the building where John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn lived in 1999.
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The Washington Post reported that the plane did not send out a distress call. Instead, it made its final descent and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in under 30 seconds.
Kennedy, Kennedy-Bessette, and Bessette's bodies were cremated and buried at sea off the coast of Martha's Vineyard on July 22, 1999.
"We are filled with unspeakable grief and sadness by the loss of John and Carolyn and Lauren Bessette," Ted Kennedy said in a statement on behalf of the Kennedy family. "John was a shining light in all our lives and in the lives of the nation and the world that first came to know him as a little boy."
As the country mourned the loss, rumors of a "Kennedy curse" were reignited.
John F. Kennedy, Jr. and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy attended the White House Correspondents dinner in 1999.
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The extensive search captured the nation's attention, as did the tragedy of the three young passengers' deaths. Yet another tragic accident for the Kennedy family, the plane crash only added to rumors of a Kennedy family curse.
"I've looked high and low and cannot find another family since the ancient Greek House of Atreus that has suffered more calamities and misfortunes than the Kennedys," Edward Klein, the author of "The Kennedy Curse: Why Tragedy Has Haunted America's First Family for 150 Years," said, according to The Washington Post.
While there are many logical reasons for the fateful plane crash, it's nevertheless poignant that the Kennedy family, one of the wealthiest and most influential political families in the world, has suffered so much tragedy throughout the last 100 years.
"The humanity of their story is what keeps us engaged," Kennedy family biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli told NBC News in 2019.
"We peer behind the scenes of their wealthy lifestyle, and we see, for all the advantages they have, tragedy can still happen."
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